| Description | 'Dear Sir
I have been advised to seek your help in accelerating the relese of Dr. H. O. Schild from internment in the Isle of Man.
Bombs drove us out of our building in London about two months ago, and I have had to evacuate our medical school to a large country house outside London.. As I am Head of the Deartment of Pharmacology it should normally fall to me to undertake the greater part of the teaching of phramacology, but at the moment I am so occupied in converting the country house into laboratories and other requirements of a Medical School that the teaching o Pharmacology is going by default. Dr. Schild is on my staff and normally does a large share in the teaching of Pharmacology. If the education of our medical students is not to suffer seriously it is imperative that he returns to his post as soon as posible.
Dr. Schild has been in continuous employment in Departments of Pharmacology in this country for the last 8 years, and the heads of all the departments in which he has worked , starting with Sir Henry Dale, have written letters strongly supporting his claim for release from internment. We are all prepared to vouch for his loyalty to this country and the ideals for which we are fighting, as well as for his scientific abillity and his capabillity as a teacher of medical students. This we are able to do as a result of the intimate personal contact that one gets in scientific departments, and it would be difficult to get any more reliable evidence of personal opinions of a man's character than can be obtained from such direct and continuous observation over so long a period. Dr. Schild's claims for release have been supported by the Royal Society and by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of the British Universities. The latter were informed by the Home Office as long ago as Sept. 19th that his case was due for review by a tribunal.
Recently the Provost of University College, Sir Allen Mawer, wrote to the Home Office urging upon them the importance of securing his release soon enough to be of assistance to the present group of medical students.
I cannot plead with you too urgently to help us in securing Dr. Schild's release as the difficulties we are encountering in carrying on adequate education for our medical students after being driven out of our buildings are very great, and he is exactly the sort of person we depend upon to carry us through.
Yours very truly
(signed) F. R. Winton' |